Quotes About Succession

Greatness comes from beginning something that does not end with you.

He had fathered a great brood of us without providing for a proper succession, he had been less than kind to all of our mothers and he then expected our devotion and support. He played favorites and, in fact, it even seemed he played us off against one another. He then got suckered into something he could not handle and left the kingdom in a mess.

old Abe is through with his next four years, we will put him [i.e., Grant]

Yet Gates was groomed by Rockefeller, and if he was granted a large measure of freedom, it was partly because Rockefeller had trained him as his proxy.

grooming sons to inherit their respective businesses.

Then it grew steadily clearer that Junior would be the receptacle for the bulk of the fortune.

Senior must have feared that the stupendous weight of the fortune would crush his delicate son.

Junior would have inherited both the controversy and the legal liability that went with the stock.

After Pierpont Morgan's death, the House of Morgan would become less autocratic, less identified with a single individual. Power would be diffused among several partners, although Jack Morgan would remain as figurehead.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Um tirano vence por seu gênio, mas seu sucessor será sempre um rematado canalha. Por esta razão, luto sem tréguas e apaixonadamente contra os sistemas dessa natureza, contra a Itália fascista de hoje e contra a Rússia soviética de hoje. A atual democracia na Europa naufraga e culpamos por esse naufrágio o desaparecimento da ideologia republicana.

he was succeeded by his grandson, who was an ass ? but made up for it by being shortlived.

Well, we're all mortal...and the old must make way for the young, otherwise there would be no promotion.

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.

We do not want people thinking that we're trying to start a dynasty," he explained. "You know how you get those politicians who are sons of other politicians and grandsons of even more politicians. I do not think that is very democratic, and so I shall not be involved in this campaign, even if I fully support it

We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion.

God's plan is always for the present generation to build on the strengths of the previous. This is the synergy of the ages—multiplied power through generational agreement and honor.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

A story is a succession of motivations and reactions.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.